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David Klecker Imagine a trilogy: the first taking place in 18th century France where a toy maker L'Merchant builds the puzzle box for an eccentric rich aristocrat who uses it to summon a demon Angelique. The second movie taking place directly after Hellraiser III where the building we see in the end is the setting of a sort of Ghostbusters copy where the building is architected to summon demons and the the ancestor of L'Merchant lives there with his family. During this time he also building toys and trying to complete L'Merchant's work in building the device that will destroy hell. The third movie is the futuristic space ending where a space station serves as the device that L'Merchant designed to destroy hell and where another ancestor of L'Merchant builds and hijacks it in order to fulfill his family's destiny and destroy Pinhead and the Cenobites once and for all. It's a bold movie and a bold idea and it was all headed by Clive Barker who conceived of the idea and sold it to Miramax. But that's not what this movie is. This movie is the condensed, short short version of all three ideas into one unintelligible, incoherent, cropped, cutted, mish-mosh of a mess that is called Hellraiser Bloodlines. This could have been great. This could have been one of the best of the series, but it was not to be. Instead we have to piece together what could have been and hang our heads in the atrocity we have been given. Even Hellraiser V is better than this. Even Hellraiser III was better than this (well more interesting that is). It's no wonder the original directory removed his name from the credits.If you liked this movie, great. But you have to admit, there was no screenplay here. There is no story here (there was supposed to be) and there was no way to understand what is really happening if you only have 1 hour and 20 minutes to explain a movie that takes place in three different time periods containing three different stories, all with different characters. This should have just been the middle part of the movie. It would have been mediocre, but it would have been a mediocre sequel much like II and III were. IV isn't god awful, it's just a mangled mess and you can tell.

trashgang Remener Jason Voorhees going to space, people hated that, it was 2001. But 5 years earlier Kevin Yagher had to direct pinhead in space, the most hated entry in the franchise were Doug Bradley plays pinhead.The story takes place in 3 era's, the important one is in space and they are all connected due a bloodline. So we follow a girl that has walked among humans for ages. It's only in space that she's a cenobite. The story itself isn't really that strong. The history of the toymaker, the creator of the box, isn't that interesting but it's the gore added that makes it worth seeing. Weere as in part 3 the cenobites looked a bit funny and stuff was sometimes done with morphing here the cenobites do look like fine. The creation of the twins is really well done. It's not all that bad, it's just a weak story but as i said earlier, once pinhead comes in it do works out fine. Gore 1,5/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 2,5/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

tomgillespie2002 The fourth instalment of the already-tired Hellraiser franchise signalled the last time that original creator Clive Barker would be involved, and also the final film of the series to be shown on the big screen, with the subsequent sequels heading straight to VHS or DVD. Doug Bradley, who at this point was the only surviving cast member from Barker's terrific 1987 original, described Hellraiser IV: Bloodline as the "shoot from Hell", and its troubled production saw director Kevin Yagher demand his name be removed from the credits, instead opting for the go-to pseudonym Alan Smithee. While things never looked good for the film, Part IV of Miramax's cult franchise isn't actually quite as bad as you would expect.In 2127, engineer Dr. Paul Merchant (Bruce Ramsay) uses a robot to solve the Lament Configuration puzzle box on board space station The Minos. The opening of the box destroys the robot, and Merchant is taken in for questioning by a group of armed guards suspicious of his intentions. Whilst being interrogated by the groups leader, Rimmer (Christine Harnos), Merchant reveals that he is part of a cursed bloodline that stretches back to 18th-century France, where his ancestor, toy-maker Phillip L'Merchant (also Ramsay), builds the box for a rich aristocrat who desires to summon a slave-girl from Hell. While L'Merchant fails to prevent the demon Angelique (Valentina Vargas) arriving in our world, generations later New York architect John Merchant (Ramsay again) is haunted by visions of the box, building a skyscraper resembling the Lament Configuration.After two sequels with little to recommend other than Kenneth Cranham's wonderfully over-the-top thesping, Bloodline at least attempts to inject a fresh take on the Hellraiser universe. The decision to portray the arrival of Hell on Earth over three vastly different time periods is an interesting one, even if it is somewhat clumsily handled and often poorly acted. Yet for the bulk of the film we are stuck in the less-interesting modern day, or 1996, and it is here that Bloodline suffers from formulaic storytelling. The introduction of the demon Angelique offers the chance for some twisted sexual tension between her and Pinhead (Bradley), yet this isn't explored enough, and ultimately fizzles out in favour of more time with the over-exposed, iconic Cenobite, whose role was significantly beefed up by the studio following Yagher's departure. It's certainly one of the best of the series' sequels, yet given how bad the movies that followed are, that's hardly saying much.

Steven Sanders it's easy to write off Hellraiser: Bloodline as "the one set in space," but the reality is that only 1/3 of the film takes place in the future. The underrated sequel brings an incredible amount of mythology to the table, and though I'd be lying if I said it all worked, it's the ambition that makes this one somewhat of a gem. Given the low budget and messy production, it's no minor miracle that it works as well as it does.Hellraiser Bloodline tells both the beginning and ending of the story Clive Barker unleashed on the big screen in 1987. Not only do we find out how the puzzle box was created, as well as by whom and for what initial purpose, but we also get a front row seat for its destruction, providing a sense of closure to the franchise.other sequels followed, but by jumping so far into the future for the outer space-set finale, Dimension Films was able to make the rare franchise sequel that actually feels like the end of the franchise. Not only is the puzzle box destroyed but so too is Pinhead, and there's something to be said for the definitive nature of Bloodline. In many ways, it's sort of the last Hellraiser sequel that matters.Ambition and a respectable amount of imagination are also on display in Hellraiser: Bloodline's standout makeup effects, particularly when it comes to the birth of a siamese Cenobite that Pinhead creates by literally twisting two twin brothers together. The film also introduces the awesome Chatterer Beast, a hellish pet hound composed of human flesh. He doesn't get nearly enough screen-time, but he's pretty damn cool.Hellraiser: Bloodline tries way harder than most horror sequels. And for that, we should all respect it.The beauty of Bloodline is that it's both the first and last film in the Hellraiser chronology.